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Atchison
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city in and county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Atchison
- Named after
- David Rice Atchison
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- La Rochelle Young
- City manager
- Mark Westhoff
- Total
- 8.47 sq mi (21.93 km )
- Land
- 8.01 sq mi (20.75 km )
- Water
- 0.46 sq mi (1.18 km )
- Elevation
- 869 ft (265 m)
- Density
- 1,359/sq mi (524.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 20-02900
- Website
- CityOfAtchison.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Named after
- David Rice Atchison
- Official name
- Atchison
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Atchison County
- Population
- 10885
- Area
- 21.593255
- Elevation
- 248
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Atchison County
- Official website
- www.cityofatchison.com
- Image
- Atchison Kansas Commercial Street.jpg
- Households
- 3746
- Dialing code
- 913
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- Commons category
- Atchison, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Atchison, Kansas
- postal code
- 66002
- inception
- 1854-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Atchison, Kansas
- category for people born here
- Q16742791
- water as percent of area
- 5.5281
- different from
- Atchison
- per capita income
- 21881
- P12749
- Hard Promises
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Encyclopedic overview
Atchison is a city in and the county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, along the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 10,885. The city is named in honor of US Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri and was the original eastern terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Atchison is also the home of Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts university.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atchison” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.